'''Test cases for overriding inherited protected virtual methods''' import unittest from PySide.QtCore import QTimerEvent from PySide.QtGui import QApplication, QSpinBox from helper import UsesQApplication class MySpinButton(QSpinBox): '''Simple example class of overriding QObject.timerEvent''' def __init__(self, max_runs=5, app=None): #Creates a new spinbox that will run and quit super(MySpinButton, self).__init__() if app is None: app = QApplication([]) self.app = app self.max_runs = max_runs self.runs = 0 def timerEvent(self, event): #Timer event method self.runs += 1 self.setValue(self.runs) if self.runs == self.max_runs: self.app.quit() if not isinstance(event, QTimerEvent): raise TypeError('Invalid event type. Must be TimerEvent') class TimerEventTest(UsesQApplication): '''Test case for running QObject.timerEvent from inherited class''' qapplication = True def setUp(self): #Acquire resources super(TimerEventTest, self).setUp() self.widget = MySpinButton(app=self.app) def tearDown(self): #Release resources del self.widget super(TimerEventTest, self).tearDown() def testMethod(self): #QWidget.timerEvent overrinding (protected inherited) timer_id = self.widget.startTimer(0) self.app.exec_() self.widget.killTimer(timer_id) self.assert_(self.widget.runs >= self.widget.max_runs) if __name__ == '__main__': unittest.main() #app = QApplication([]) #widget = MySpinButton(app=app) #widget.startTimer(500) #widget.show() #app.exec_()